Referee management software

Officials set their availability and block-outs from their phone, in the same app they use to accept appointments and read their reports. Reminders go to anyone who hasn't filled in the coming round, so appointers stop chasing replies through group chats and spreadsheets.

Capital Football already runs referee availability on RefWhistle, with appointments the next stage of its rollout.

Fixtures arrive from your competition manager, so nobody types the draw in twice. Appointers allocate the referee, assistant referees and fourth official into a crew, and the allocation portal checks each choice as it is made: double bookings, panel level, workload and club conflicts are flagged before an offer goes out.

Officials accept or decline on their phone. Swaps and late withdrawals are handled on the match itself, so when the season is reviewed the appointment history, the coach's report and the footage are all on the same record.

VAR and AVAR are appointable positions with their own report roles, and futsal crews use futsal positions. Sport profiles cover football and futsal out of the box, with a general profile for officials in other codes.

Appointments sit inside the same hierarchy as everything else: organisation, association and sub-group, with settings that are inherited, customised or locked at each level. A federation can set its compliance rules once and let each member association appoint its own panels.

Delegate the work without handing over the keys. Admin, technical coach, coach and referee roles come built in, with custom roles and granular permissions on top. Accounts are by invitation only, and every critical change is logged with who made it and when.

An appointment is where the record starts. The coach at that match logs it with referee coaching software on the same fixture, and if the match is streamed, Stream Hub puts the footage on the match clock. Master View then ranks the panel on current form, so the next round is appointed from evidence, not memory.